“In 1992, the US film professor Carol J Clover published Men, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Princeton University Press). In it, she introduced the concept of the “final girl”, a female protagonist who survives the bloodbath to take on the slasher in the closing scenes. If the final girl is heroic, she is also a problematic figure, kept alive by the film-maker because of he”
“songs like horror vignettes, and their best album yet”
“On its fourth album, the Scottish trio steps back from the grandest pop aspirations and embraces a horror-movie concept without losing its signature brightness and sense of joy.”
“The Glasgow band tackles the misogyny and despairs of the digital age on their latest album.”
“Chvrches settle confidently into their pop soundscapes on Screen Violence”
“Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry was a guest on the latest series of our podcast Midnight Chats. Listen here. The last Chvrches record, Love Is Dead, represented a bit of an Icarus moment for them. They’d always been a polished outfit, even on the singles that preceded debut LP The Bones of What You Believe, so the only obvious trajectory for them on the albums that followed was to lean into their anthe”
